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If standard irons prying at the top and bottom does not disengage these locks, then TTL methods could be warranted. Another thing to consider when dealing with panic hardware is that if door control is of no concern, breaking the glass, though not perhaps the first option, could be considered since you could reach in by hand or with a tool to pull the panic bar towards you. Pulling the lock is quick and easy with the right tools and know-how, but another option is to cut the lock.

This can be especially useful with the pivoting deadbolt. If pulling the lock has failed, or is not an option for reasons such as lack of lock pulling tool or a cylinder guard that cannot be removed, a forcible entry saw with a metal cutting blade can be employed. In many instances this will enable you to gain access in a timely manner, so long as there are no other locking devices, as in some newer doors.

It will also allow you to maintain door control by keeping the glass intact. Some departments choose to keep their forcible entry saw in the outboard position, if used for mainly forcible entry. This moves the blade to the outside of the bar, allowing the saw to be put into tighter places.

While it provides no distinct advantage cutting a mortise deadbolt, it can provide advantages when faced with other forcible entry challenges such as shearing carriage bolts on rear and side commercial doors photo Cutting the lock is most easily performed with two firefighters. The adz of the halligan is driven in above the lock, leaving plenty of room for the saw to work, and then one firefighter uses it to gap the door, much like a crushing gap in conventional forcible entry photo This provides the saw firefighter plenty of room to access the deadbolt.

In such a situation, the firefighter holding the halligan should stand to the right side of the firefighter doing the cutting. This will place the pike of the halligan pointing up, leaving plenty of room for the cut to be made. If the halligan is brought in from the left, as seen in photo 16, the pike of the halligan will be pointing down and can interfere with the cutting operation.

This operation can still be performed by one firefighter but the gap will only be as large as what the halligan displaces when driven in. Another option is to drive the blade of the ax in at an angle below the lock, much as you would to obtain a gap for a single person force of an outward-swinging door photo When using the K-Tool or Rex Tool on a mortise cylinder, the tool is beat down onto the lock.

The blades of the tool are kept flush with the face of the door in order to achieve a bite on the lock cylinder itself, instead of just the face of the lock photo One the tool is secure; the lock cylinder is pried out of the door face, leaving the firefighter an opening into the mechanism of the lock itself.

The back of a mortise cylinder will have a cam photo 20 , which is an indication that it is a mortise lock and not a rim lock. Mortise pivoting deadbolts are the most common lock body found in these glass storefront doors. There is a rolling pin photo 21 that, if depressed with the angled end of the key tool photo 22 , can be moved from one side to the other.

Once the pin has been moved and locked into position, the door is unlocked. To secure the building, just move the pin back to the original locking side. The mortise dead latch does not have this rolling pin.

It has a sliding mechanism photo 23 that, when pulled back away from the edge of the door, slides the deadlatch in, unlocking the door. The firefighter must keep pressure on this slide while pulling on the door or the latch will spring back into place. The mortise retractable deadbolt will have a mechanism the will be slid from one side to the other; when slid, it will retract the deadbolt photo The procedure is the exact same whether you pull the lock on the fireground or whether you spin the lock out on a water gong activation or some other low acuity call.

As stated earlier, rim locks are generally easy to force with conventional irons. The exception could be rim locks with vertical rods.

If your chosen method for forcing this door is TTL then you need to know the operation is different than pulling and manipulating the mortise lock. Pulling the lock is similar to pulling a mortise lock. The K-Tool or Rex Tool blades are kept flush with the door and the tool is driven down onto the lock. The lock face is thinner on rim locks than on mortise locks. Cheap rim lock faces may break off when you attempt to pull them if you do not have a good bite on the cylinder itself.

Once you have a good bite on the cylinder with your tool, pry the tool away pulling the cylinder from the face of the door. When you pull a rim lock, the back of the lock cylinder will have a stem photo This is a tell-tale sign of a rim lock and not a mortise lock. The firefighter can stick the straight end of his key tool photo 27 or a screwdriver into the opening and manipulate the lock by turning it until the lock has unlocked. The firefighter must keep pressure on it as he opens the door or the door will most likely lock back before he can open it.

Once passing through this door, since it is panic hardware, the firefighter on the inside will be able to easily get out, however, the door will have to be slightly chocked if a hoseline has not been placed through it.

This will keep the door from locking again and keeping other firefighters from entering the building without having to manipulate the lock again. This has been just a brief overview on fireground TTL techniques and uses and is far from exhaustive on the subject.

While overall TTL methods are simple procedures, they require attention to detail and technical savvy for firefighters to be successful. It would be a good idea for departments or firefighters to buy commercial props or build cheap homemade TTL props to help firefighters fine-tune the technique of pulling locks. TTL on the fireground is often ignored, but a well-disciplined and trained truck company at the scene of a commercial fire can make quick work of multiple storefront doors using these techniques.

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